New
government
website
launches
with
strong
digital
design
principles

New government website launches with strong digital design principles ...

Finally, the government have released a new and improved website to replace the previous directgov and business link websites.

www.gov.uk is now "the best place to find government services and information."

On first impression is seems to do a very good job. They are clearly sticking to their principles and have built a website that has simple navigation, plain and direct language, strong search, uncluttered pages and (as you'd expect) plenty of content!

Interestingly they have clearly & publicly stated these simple principles www.gov.uk/designprinciples which are striking as best practice user centred digital design principles that all web developers should be following: